About Us
Our MissionCommunity Futures Entre-Corp will assist the communities of Southeast Alberta to develop and achieve their collective goals for economic development.
Community Futures Entre-Corp is committed to being the region's leader in entrepreneurial development. We will maintain our position by providing the highest quality of services, resources, and leadership to the community.
Growing Communities One Idea at a Time
Service Promise: Business professionals Developing Business
The Objectives of Community Futures Entre-Corp
- Promote entrepreneurship by supporting new and expanding businesses with loans, counselling and business information resources.
- Provide quality small business training to the region. Encourage partnerships in training to increase the capacity of business in Southeast Alberta. Self-Start, Evening Seminars, Export Training, Brown Bag Series (Video Conferencing)
- Promote youth entrepreneurship programs. Support the Alberta Youth Entrepreneurship Camp and Student Business Services.
- To assist in the development and implementation of regional community economic development for the communities of Southeast Alberta.
- Assist communities in an effort to improve economic and community development by encouraging alliances between boards, councils, government agencies and communities within the region.
- Provide a higher level of service in the communities within the region which may be experiencing higher levels of instability.
Community Futures Audited Financial Statements 2008/2009 (PDF)
Shareholders
| Shareholder | Representative |
| Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce | Rick Derbyshire - Board Chairman |
| Town of Bow Island | Alan Hyland - Vice Chair |
| Gordon Reynolds | |
| Cypress County | Brad Betcker |
| Harley Lehr | |
| City of Medicine Hat | Keith Crush - Secretary Treasurer |
| Marvin Mutchsler | |
| Brooks & District Chamber of Commerce | George Newton |
| City of Brooks | Kimberley Sharkey |
| Anne Marie Shields | |
| Town of Redcliff | Eric Solberg |
| Vic Lutz | |
| Bow Island and Burdett Chamber of Commerce | Blaine O'Donnell |
Community Futures Entre-Corp Business Development has eight shareholder representatives appointed by the shareholders. These appointments carry a one term with no limits on the number of terms. The regional shareholders are made up of five communities and three Chambers of Commerce. An additional five representatives to the board are community appointments by the Board of Directors.
Communities Served
Community Futures Entre-Corp provides services for small businesses in Southeastern Alberta including the following:
- Bow Island
- Foremost
- Brooks
- Duchess
- Tilley
- Irvine
- Burdett
- Manyberries
- County of Forty Mile
- Medicine Hat
- County of Newell
- Cypress County
- Elkwater
- Redcliff